From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 19:50:53 MDT
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>>spike wrote: ...oddball things the daughter of Ted Williams
>>mentioned is that the corpses are stored head down. Why do
>>they do that? spike
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>Greg Burch wrote:
>There's actually a very good reason: So that any temporary failure in
>the liquid nitrogen "topping off" regimen will result in thawing of the
>feet first, and the head last. It does have the unfortunate effect of
>running counter to our billions-of-years evolved preference for having
>things be "right-side-up".
>
>Greg Burch
>Vice-President, Extropy Institute
>http://www.gregburch.net
>
OK, but after thinking this over I disagree with the logic of it.
Imagine a dewar filled with LN2. Terrorist attack, local nuke,
(fill in appropriate disaster), no one around to refill dewar, LN2
begins to boil off. As long as *any* LN2 is present anywhere
in that dewar, the corpsicles remain frozen hard, in a mostly
gaseous chemically neutral nitrogen environment at not much
above LN2 temps. The returning corpsicle-rescuers might find
safely and solidly frozen patients poking half outta the liquid.
Since it seems to disturb the uninitiated for whatever wacky reason,
I would propose that Alcor drop the upsidedown thing. spike
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